Chris, I suspect it was cool for folks who needed what AOL provided. As someone who got his first email account in the 1980's and first used a browser sometime around 1992, I do understand why you'd say it was never cool. I don't think AOL was ever cool to the techies.
Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- > Don't you mean to say "before broadband"? No, Tom is RIGHT. :) In Olden Tymes, AOL (like CompuServe) was a service unto itself, not connected to the Internet. When you went to AOL, there was nowhere else to go. And if you had an AOL account and your buddy had a CompuServe account, you used the phone to talk to him because there was no email between the two services. He is, however, wrong about AOL ever being cool. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
